1370. Increasing Decreasing String*
https://leetcode.com/problems/increasing-decreasing-string/
题目描述
Given a string s
. You should re-order the string using the following algorithm:
- Pick the smallest character from
s
and append it to the result. - Pick the smallest character from
s
which is greater than the last appended character to the result and append it. - Repeat step 2 until you cannot pick more characters.
- Pick the largest character from
s
and append it to the result. - Pick the largest character from
s
which is smaller than the last appended character to the result and append it. - Repeat step 5 until you cannot pick more characters.
- Repeat the steps from 1 to 6 until you pick all characters from
s
.
In each step, If the smallest or the largest character appears more than once you can choose any occurrence and append it to the result.
Return the result string after sorting s
with this algorithm.
Example 1:
Input: s = "aaaabbbbcccc"
Output: "abccbaabccba"
Explanation: After steps 1, 2 and 3 of the first iteration, result = "abc"
After steps 4, 5 and 6 of the first iteration, result = "abccba"
First iteration is done. Now s = "aabbcc" and we go back to step 1
After steps 1, 2 and 3 of the second iteration, result = "abccbaabc"
After steps 4, 5 and 6 of the second iteration, result = "abccbaabccba"
Example 2:
Input: s = "rat"
Output: "art"
Explanation: The word "rat" becomes "art" after re-ordering it with the mentioned algorithm.
Example 3:
Input: s = "leetcode"
Output: "cdelotee"
Example 4:
Input: s = "ggggggg"
Output: "ggggggg"
Example 5:
Input: s = "spo"
Output: "ops"
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 500
s
contains only lower-case English letters.
C++ 实现 1
参考 [Java/Python 3] Two clean codes w/ explanation and analysis.
但这里采用哈希表解决, 当然也可以使用大小为 26
的数组来表示哈希表, 用于对字符串 s
中字符的计数. 引入辅助函数 add
, 如果 asc
为 true
, 那么在哈希表中从小到大查找字符; 如果为 false
, 那么从大到小查找字符.
class Solution {
private:
void add(string &res, unordered_map<char, int> &record, bool asc) {
for (int i = 0; i < 26; ++ i) {
auto idx = asc ? i : 25 - i;
char c = 'a' + idx;
if (record.count(c)) {
res += c;
record[c] --;
if (record[c] == 0) record.erase(c);
}
}
}
public:
string sortString(string s) {
unordered_map<char, int> record;
for (auto &c : s) record[c] ++;
string res;
while (res.size() < s.size()) {
add(res, record, true);
add(res, record, false);
}
return res;
}
};